Therapists in Los Angeles, CA
Taking the first step toward improving your life is a powerful decision! Have you been feeling overwhelmed? Having relationship issues? Are you unhappy and unsure why? Ready to break unhealthy cycles? Or do you just need a safe place to process your thoughts and emotions? I work with individuals and couples experiencing stress, anxiety, postpartum, trauma, depression, family or relationship conflict, anger, communication, self-esteem issues, and cultural systemic oppression. I am also trained to provide Parenting Therapy to moms, dads, couples, and expecting parents.
Taking the first step toward improving your life is a powerful decision! Have you been feeling overwhelmed? Having relationship issues? Are you unhappy and unsure why? Ready to break unhealthy cycles? Or do you just need a safe place to process your thoughts and emotions? I work with individuals and couples experiencing stress, anxiety, postpartum, trauma, depression, family or relationship conflict, anger, communication, self-esteem issues, and cultural systemic oppression. I am also trained to provide Parenting Therapy to moms, dads, couples, and expecting parents.
I seek to help families, young adults and adults navigate recovery as it relates to substance abuse and mental health issues. If I could have an "ideal client", it would be someone that has never been to a residential facility before and to catch them before it gets to that point. Most often, the people I work with have some substance use history along with mental health issues. Fulfillment, time management, family relationships, communication, harm reduction, abstinence, stability, etc. are often topics that people I work with seek help for.
I seek to help families, young adults and adults navigate recovery as it relates to substance abuse and mental health issues. If I could have an "ideal client", it would be someone that has never been to a residential facility before and to catch them before it gets to that point. Most often, the people I work with have some substance use history along with mental health issues. Fulfillment, time management, family relationships, communication, harm reduction, abstinence, stability, etc. are often topics that people I work with seek help for.
Hi hi! I’m Sarah (she/they). Do you feel disconnected from yourself or others?
Do you struggle with intimacy, gender identity, or navigating non-traditional relationships? Are you experiencing anxiety around your relationships or sense of self? Many people feel overwhelmed, unsure, or stuck when it comes to relational and identity challenges, but you don’t have to navigate these feelings alone. Therapy can help you find clarity, confidence, and connection. I specialize in relational and intimacy issues, gender & sexuality exploration, attachment issues, and anxiety. My work is affirming, trauma-informed, and social justice-oriented.
Hi hi! I’m Sarah (she/they). Do you feel disconnected from yourself or others?
Do you struggle with intimacy, gender identity, or navigating non-traditional relationships? Are you experiencing anxiety around your relationships or sense of self? Many people feel overwhelmed, unsure, or stuck when it comes to relational and identity challenges, but you don’t have to navigate these feelings alone. Therapy can help you find clarity, confidence, and connection. I specialize in relational and intimacy issues, gender & sexuality exploration, attachment issues, and anxiety. My work is affirming, trauma-informed, and social justice-oriented.
Christina Fischer-Hernandez
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT, APCC
1 Endorsed
Los Angeles, CA 90025
My approach is rooted in compassion and collaboration, aiming to help you better understand yourself and uncover the patterns that shape your life. Together, we will explore how these patterns once served you but now hold you back or get in the way of deeply connecting with others. I will support you in developing skills and ways of relating that align with your goals. I believe in our shared need for community and the transformative power of being truly seen and understood. Healing begins with a warm, trusting relationship, and I am dedicated to creating a safe space where you feel heard, valued, and empowered to grow.
My approach is rooted in compassion and collaboration, aiming to help you better understand yourself and uncover the patterns that shape your life. Together, we will explore how these patterns once served you but now hold you back or get in the way of deeply connecting with others. I will support you in developing skills and ways of relating that align with your goals. I believe in our shared need for community and the transformative power of being truly seen and understood. Healing begins with a warm, trusting relationship, and I am dedicated to creating a safe space where you feel heard, valued, and empowered to grow.
Welcome! Taking the first step toward therapy is a powerful choice, and I’m here to support you. Together, we’ll create a supportive space where you can gain clarity, develop resilience, and move toward positive change. I encourage you to reach out when you feel ready to begin. I work with individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, life transitions, or past trauma and are looking for practical tools to regain a sense of control.
Welcome! Taking the first step toward therapy is a powerful choice, and I’m here to support you. Together, we’ll create a supportive space where you can gain clarity, develop resilience, and move toward positive change. I encourage you to reach out when you feel ready to begin. I work with individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, life transitions, or past trauma and are looking for practical tools to regain a sense of control.
I am a first-generation bilingual Latina therapist of Oaxacan descent. I am passionate about helping others work through current life stressors. I feel blessed to be able to help others in their journey to self-discovery, healing, growth, and fulfillment. I believe in approaching the therapeutic relationship from a place of humility and compassion, above all remaining person-centered. My work has led me to assist folks with working through symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, emotional dysregulation, and life stress.
I am a first-generation bilingual Latina therapist of Oaxacan descent. I am passionate about helping others work through current life stressors. I feel blessed to be able to help others in their journey to self-discovery, healing, growth, and fulfillment. I believe in approaching the therapeutic relationship from a place of humility and compassion, above all remaining person-centered. My work has led me to assist folks with working through symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, emotional dysregulation, and life stress.
Rachel Adelmann: Teen/Adult OCD &
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS LMFT
26 Endorsed
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Do you ever feel like your mind just won’t shut off—like intrusive thoughts keep looping no matter what you do? Maybe you feel stuck doing certain routines or rituals just to feel "okay" for a little while. It can be exhausting, confusing, and really isolating.
If this sounds familiar, you might be dealing with OCD or anxiety. But here’s the truth: you’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone. There is a way forward, and things can get better.
Do you ever feel like your mind just won’t shut off—like intrusive thoughts keep looping no matter what you do? Maybe you feel stuck doing certain routines or rituals just to feel "okay" for a little while. It can be exhausting, confusing, and really isolating.
If this sounds familiar, you might be dealing with OCD or anxiety. But here’s the truth: you’re not broken, and you’re definitely not alone. There is a way forward, and things can get better.
Hello, my name is, Jana Gottfried, and I am a licensed clinical social worker. I am passionate about helping people work through issues around anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and life challenges. I work with people struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, issues of grief, life transitions, and issues around chronic illnesses. My therapeutic approach is with cognitive behavioral therapy because CBT gives you concrete tools to gain more control over your emotions and work through issues. I also use mindfulness, creative visualization exercises, to learn how to trust your own intuition and emotions.
Hello, my name is, Jana Gottfried, and I am a licensed clinical social worker. I am passionate about helping people work through issues around anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and life challenges. I work with people struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, issues of grief, life transitions, and issues around chronic illnesses. My therapeutic approach is with cognitive behavioral therapy because CBT gives you concrete tools to gain more control over your emotions and work through issues. I also use mindfulness, creative visualization exercises, to learn how to trust your own intuition and emotions.
With over 40 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I help people listen to their inner voice and develop self-knowledge to find the path that feels right for them. I believe each person is unique, with their own biology, neurology, family history, and culture. I strive to create a supportive, non-judgmental environment where clients can learn about themselves, find their best path forward, and achieve their goals.
With over 40 years of experience as a psychotherapist, I help people listen to their inner voice and develop self-knowledge to find the path that feels right for them. I believe each person is unique, with their own biology, neurology, family history, and culture. I strive to create a supportive, non-judgmental environment where clients can learn about themselves, find their best path forward, and achieve their goals.
As a Jungian analyst, I have a special tool I will share with you to work through life’s glitches, helping you to hone your communication skills and deepen self-understanding while nurturing trust and respect for yourself and others. We can work with your dreams to help improve self-awareness. We look at dreams as though they are a gift sent to us to access our own depth, our psyche. Together, we will explore and appreciate this gift carefully and sense its flavor and try to decipher and enjoy it. If you don't remember your dreams we can also use Jungian Sandplay Therapy. This powerful method, does not need any preparation.
As a Jungian analyst, I have a special tool I will share with you to work through life’s glitches, helping you to hone your communication skills and deepen self-understanding while nurturing trust and respect for yourself and others. We can work with your dreams to help improve self-awareness. We look at dreams as though they are a gift sent to us to access our own depth, our psyche. Together, we will explore and appreciate this gift carefully and sense its flavor and try to decipher and enjoy it. If you don't remember your dreams we can also use Jungian Sandplay Therapy. This powerful method, does not need any preparation.
Melissa Hood - Infertility & Relationships
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
6 Endorsed
Los Angeles, CA 90039
Infertility is a journey that no one signed up for. For those who want children, it’s simply devastating to be unable to expand your family as planned, while others around you move forward with their lives. Yet 1 in 8 couples experience infertility and many others experience barriers—systemic, financial, and biological—to pursuing their family-building dreams. In my practice, I focus on issues related to fertility (delayed parenthood, egg-freezing, pregnancy loss, donor-conception, surrogacy, IVF, and other forms of family-building). I understand the intense stress these issues can place on your relationships and mental health.
Infertility is a journey that no one signed up for. For those who want children, it’s simply devastating to be unable to expand your family as planned, while others around you move forward with their lives. Yet 1 in 8 couples experience infertility and many others experience barriers—systemic, financial, and biological—to pursuing their family-building dreams. In my practice, I focus on issues related to fertility (delayed parenthood, egg-freezing, pregnancy loss, donor-conception, surrogacy, IVF, and other forms of family-building). I understand the intense stress these issues can place on your relationships and mental health.
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, maybe tried therapy before. And yet something still feels stuck — in your body, your patterns, your sense of self.
That’s because real healing isn’t just cognitive. It lives in the nervous system, the body, and sometimes in the deeper layers of who we are — spiritually and energetically. If you’re ready to go beyond talk therapy and work at that level, you’re in the right place.
Women come to me navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, chronic pain, chronic illness, life transitions, and relationship patterns that talking alone hasn’t resolved.
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, maybe tried therapy before. And yet something still feels stuck — in your body, your patterns, your sense of self.
That’s because real healing isn’t just cognitive. It lives in the nervous system, the body, and sometimes in the deeper layers of who we are — spiritually and energetically. If you’re ready to go beyond talk therapy and work at that level, you’re in the right place.
Women come to me navigating anxiety, burnout, trauma, chronic pain, chronic illness, life transitions, and relationship patterns that talking alone hasn’t resolved.
Each of us walks a hard road. We meet challenges — in the world and in ourselves — and face them as well as can. We carry pain, often invisibly. We press on in spite of the doubt we feel about ourselves, our relationships, or our place in this universe.
The way I see it, none of us are meant to do all of this alone.
My approach to therapy — and to life — is curious and reflective, rooted in cultural humility and radical acceptance. I want to know who you are, and I want you to know that it’s okay to show me.
Each of us walks a hard road. We meet challenges — in the world and in ourselves — and face them as well as can. We carry pain, often invisibly. We press on in spite of the doubt we feel about ourselves, our relationships, or our place in this universe.
The way I see it, none of us are meant to do all of this alone.
My approach to therapy — and to life — is curious and reflective, rooted in cultural humility and radical acceptance. I want to know who you are, and I want you to know that it’s okay to show me.
Now accepting new client to be added to my waitlist . Are you struggling with relationships, work stress, or feeling isolated? Often people who come to see me for therapy are facing combined challenges including anxiety, depression and work stress. In therapy you and I will develop a therapeutic partnership and a collaborative, supportive space to help you reach your goals.
Now accepting new client to be added to my waitlist . Are you struggling with relationships, work stress, or feeling isolated? Often people who come to see me for therapy are facing combined challenges including anxiety, depression and work stress. In therapy you and I will develop a therapeutic partnership and a collaborative, supportive space to help you reach your goals.
I believe in all people’s innate capacity to heal. To me, all symptoms that we experience whether it be chronic pain, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, etc can be explained by trauma. Trauma does not have to be big events. Trauma can be if we are not attuned to emotionally as children or if our parents have their own unprocessed trauma—this sort of trauma often leads to deep seeded beliefs that we are unloveable and bad. Our healing comes from teaching our parts that we are loveable and accepted just as we are.
I believe in all people’s innate capacity to heal. To me, all symptoms that we experience whether it be chronic pain, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, etc can be explained by trauma. Trauma does not have to be big events. Trauma can be if we are not attuned to emotionally as children or if our parents have their own unprocessed trauma—this sort of trauma often leads to deep seeded beliefs that we are unloveable and bad. Our healing comes from teaching our parts that we are loveable and accepted just as we are.
Hi, I'm a depth-oriented therapist who helps you to access your own inner voice and intuition, allowing it to guide you to your truest self. In a culture of growing disconnection and isolation, it can be challenging to find belonging, even within yourself. I can help you to explore the roots of shame, self-doubt, and dissatisfaction with life to foster more genuine relationships with others and with your own deeper self.
Hi, I'm a depth-oriented therapist who helps you to access your own inner voice and intuition, allowing it to guide you to your truest self. In a culture of growing disconnection and isolation, it can be challenging to find belonging, even within yourself. I can help you to explore the roots of shame, self-doubt, and dissatisfaction with life to foster more genuine relationships with others and with your own deeper self.
Finding a therapist is an extremely personal choice and developing the right rapport with your therapist is vital to the therapeutic process. I work from a Client Centered Approach; creating a compassionate environment that is safe and free of judgement.I am available to answer any questions you may have assist you in your process in making the right choice in therapists.
Finding a therapist is an extremely personal choice and developing the right rapport with your therapist is vital to the therapeutic process. I work from a Client Centered Approach; creating a compassionate environment that is safe and free of judgement.I am available to answer any questions you may have assist you in your process in making the right choice in therapists.
I specialize in treating treating high achieving individuals & couples, with perfectionist tendencies. My priority is your emotional safety. Non judgmental support allows for your sharing openly and honestly. The need to "be right" can be unconscious, & you may be hurting those you love. My skilled intuition, and 25+ yrs. of clinical success, knows hope is available for the motivated and committed recovering anxious, obsessive, & over analyzing adult. Our trusting relationship inspires you to reflect upon your life/relationship goals; together we explore, & honestly challenge: "Do I want to be right?" Or, do I want to be loved?"
I specialize in treating treating high achieving individuals & couples, with perfectionist tendencies. My priority is your emotional safety. Non judgmental support allows for your sharing openly and honestly. The need to "be right" can be unconscious, & you may be hurting those you love. My skilled intuition, and 25+ yrs. of clinical success, knows hope is available for the motivated and committed recovering anxious, obsessive, & over analyzing adult. Our trusting relationship inspires you to reflect upon your life/relationship goals; together we explore, & honestly challenge: "Do I want to be right?" Or, do I want to be loved?"
We all deserve a safe, compassionate space to process and explore, whether we are healing from difficult life events or simply taking a pause to reflect on our life. I deeply believe in holistic and intersectional care, where a client doesn’t have to leave any of their identities at the door and their whole self including mind, body, and spirit is recognized and affirmed. My approach to therapy is honest, anti-oppressive, and empowering. I strongly believe therapy should be a collaborative experience - I always encourage the client to take the lead in shaping the therapy space into whatever they need it to be!
We all deserve a safe, compassionate space to process and explore, whether we are healing from difficult life events or simply taking a pause to reflect on our life. I deeply believe in holistic and intersectional care, where a client doesn’t have to leave any of their identities at the door and their whole self including mind, body, and spirit is recognized and affirmed. My approach to therapy is honest, anti-oppressive, and empowering. I strongly believe therapy should be a collaborative experience - I always encourage the client to take the lead in shaping the therapy space into whatever they need it to be!
I am a neurodivergent therapist who strives to help people move away from shame and isolation toward the sense of community and compassion they are deserving of. I thrive on vulnerable relationships where both parties feel safe enough to show up in all of their humanity. I feel most suited to helping clients looking to gain deeper insight and acceptance into being neurodivergent, those looking to redefine masculinity, and those with complex trauma histories.
I am a neurodivergent therapist who strives to help people move away from shame and isolation toward the sense of community and compassion they are deserving of. I thrive on vulnerable relationships where both parties feel safe enough to show up in all of their humanity. I feel most suited to helping clients looking to gain deeper insight and acceptance into being neurodivergent, those looking to redefine masculinity, and those with complex trauma histories.
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Number of Therapists in Los Angeles, CA
3,000+
Average cost per session
$182
Therapists in Los Angeles, CA who prioritize treating:
| 93% | Anxiety |
| 93% | Social Anxiety |
| 93% | Health Anxiety |
| 93% | Driving Anxiety |
| 86% | Depression |
| 74% | Relationship Issues |
| 71% | Self Esteem |
Average years in practice
11 Years
Top 3 insurances accepted
| 87% | Aetna |
| 72% | Cigna and Evernorth |
| 57% | Anthem |
How Therapists in Los Angeles, CA see their clients
| 53% | Online Only | |
| 47% | In Person and Online |
Gender breakdown
| 77% | Female | |
| 21% | Male | |
| 2% | Non-Binary |